Notices and Rules
Magnuson-Stevens Act Provisions; Fisheries Off West Coast States; Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery; Seabird Bycatch Avoidance Measures
Final rule describing requirements for seabird bycatch avoidance measures for commercial groundfish bottom longline vessels.
Published
12/11/2019
Pacific Coast Groundfish Buyback
Congress authorized a $46 million buyback program, of which $10 million was appropriated and the remainder to be financed under Title XI.
Published
12/11/2019
Fishing Capacity Reduction Program for the Longline Catcher Processor Subsector of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Non-Pollock Groundfish Fishery
Congress authorized up to $75 million to finance fishing capacity reduction programs within the Alaska non-pollock fisheries.
Published
12/11/2019
Amendment 28 to the Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Management Plan
NOAA Fisheries publishes a final rule on November 19, 2019 (84 FR 63966) implementing changes to area closures for commercial vessels fishing in federal waters off Washington, Oregon, and California, effective January 1, 2020.
Published
11/19/2019
Inseason Adjustments to Pacific Coast Groundfish Commercial Fisheries
This final rule announces routine inseason adjustments to management measures in commercial groundfish fisheries. This action is intended to allow commercial fishing vessels to access more abundant groundfish stocks while protecting overfished and deplete
Effective
10/21/2019
Regulatory Revisions to Vessel Movement, Monitoring, and Declaration Management for the Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery
NOAA Fisheries proposes revisions to reporting and monitoring provisions for vessels participating in the Pacific Coast groundfish fishery.
Published
10/10/2019
Fisheries off West Coast States; Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery; Electronic Monitoring Program
NOAA Fisheries has issued a final rule that makes electronic monitoring (EM) an option for midwater trawl vessels in the Pacific whiting fishery and fixed gear vessels in the Individual Fishing Quota (IFQ) fishery beginning in 2021 (but delayed)
Effective
07/29/2019
Pacific Coast Groundfish Trawl Logbook
This interim final rule creates a Federal requirement for vessels using trawl gear in the Pacific Coast Groundfish fishery to complete and submit the trawl logbook form.
Effective
07/05/2019
2018-2019 Alaska Groundfish Harvest Specifications
2018-2019 harvest specifications, apportionments, and Pacific halibut prohibited species catch limits for the groundfish fishery of the Gulf of Alaska and the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands.
Effective
03/19/2019
Alaska Groundfish and Halibut Seabird Working Group Meeting
The Alaska Groundfish and Halibut Seabird Working Group will meet to discuss use of leading indicators as tool to assess inseason seabird bycatch risk, vessel-specific seabird bycatch mortality, and an update on studies examining seabird bycatch in the tr
Issued
02/22/2019